Friday, January 19, 2007

Linux Cheat Sheet 2

Ito na yung cheat sheet :D sorry for the delay...

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/gs/node5.html

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Exercise 2: Web Searching

Let's search the web!!

1. Give me the description of the city of Rabanastre in the game Final Fantasy 12

2. Find Munzner's thesis paper about hyperbolic geometry and its use in visualizing large 3-D graphs. Give a brief background about it.


3. Use the 3 kinds of web searching and list the top ten list. The keyword: "Galtean Alliance"

4. Give me a brief description of the "Gravitional warp" in the game Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

5. What is the element Uranium?

6. Give me a description of the ARPANET?

7. How do you get the "omnislash" limit break in FF7?

8. What is the name of the final boss in the game FF9 and give a breif background about it...

9. What is Information Visualization?

10. Find and give a brief discussion about "Visualizing the Internet Using 3D Hyperbolic Space and Quasi-hierarchical Graphs"



then send it to tjkmonserrat@yahoo.com.ph
with heading: Exercise 2: Web Searching

include in your email your Full name and section :D
include also in every answer the source or the site of your answer :D

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

The humble Linux cheat sheet

Intro lang ito... so don't depend so much dito... K? kung gusto niyo pang malaman... use --help

Moving around the file system:
pwd - "Print working directory", show your location
ls - list files
ls -l - list files with additional info
ls -a - list hidden files :D
cd - change directory
cd .. - go to parent directory

Examine files:
file - determine type of file
cat - Concatenate file
less - View text files and paginate them if needed (to exit press q)

Manipulate files:
cp - copy file (Usage: cp )
cp -i - ask first before copy (if destination exists)
cp -r - copy a directory with its contents
mv - move or rename a file
mv -i - ask first before moving or renaming
rm - remove (delete) file
rm -r - remove directory with its contents
rm -i - Ask before removing file/directory. Good to use with -r option
mkdir - Make directory
rmdir - remove empty directory

Exercise 1: Introduction to Linux

So these are the questions... kayo na bahala kung gusto niyong sagut-sagutin ulit o tingnan lang...

(Questions here may be changed from the original exercise sheet)

1. What is an operating system?

2. Name 3 differences between Linux and Windows?

3. How do you log into your floppy disk in drive A in Linux?

4. How do you create a directory named "practice"? (assuming you're inside the floppy drive)

5. How do you change directories from the root of the floppy drive to the directory "practice"?

6. How do you copy a file from Paula's directory into Patrick's directory? The file name is "deer.txt". Assuming you are inside the "practice" folder and Paula's directory and Patrick's directory is outside the "practice" folder...

kung naguluhan kayo sa 6... ito yun...

floppy
|- Patrick
| |- deer.txt
|
|- Paula
|
|- practice


gets?

7. What is the path statement for this file now?

8. How do you scroll the contents of the file "deer.txt" in your screen?

9. How do you change directories and move into the root? (super-root)

10. How do you delete a file from the practice directory from your location (root)? Assuming there is an existing file also named "deer.txt"

11. How do you delete the folder practice from your location?

12. How do you rename the file from deer.txt to poem.txt? Assuming you are in the directory where deer.txt can be found

13. How many parts are there to a filename and how many characters are allowed?

14. What is the command that tells you the current version of linux in your machine?

15. What is the command to move back UP one directory level? (go to parent directory that is)

16. You are currently logged to the floppy disk in drive a: - what is the command to list its files?

17. What are the symbols used as a wildcard?

18. What is the use of mounting?

19. How do we mount a floppy?

20. Using a wildcard symbol, what is the command to list all files with the extension ".txt"?

Monday, December 04, 2006

Welcome!! :D

Ok... It's not really the big bang welcome that you may have expected but hey, it's not that biggy, is it?

Enough of this... So welcome to this site :D

From now on, I'll be posting here special announcements na nalimutan kong sabihin sa class (kelangan ko na talaga mag-Sustagen Prime... tsk tsk tsk).

also I'll be posting some notes para makatulong sa inyo sa paggawa ng inyong mga exercises and also para makatulong din sa pag-review niyo para sa exams niyo :D ok?

If there are any questions, I'll be at my room at C-112 or post a comment here.

I'll be setting up a new email ad later so that you can email me for questions and appointments easily.

Again... para sa ikabubuti natin lahat ito so cooperation is a must (and a little smile)...

Baka din ako maglagay dito ng needed reflections and jokes para hindi boring and hindi puros technical stuff :D okies?

Oo nga pala baka tanungin nyo, "Sino si Wielder of Light?"... Ako yan (Sir TJ) :D may isa pa akong blog kasi dito and I'm using the same account para di sayang ang space :D

So enjoy this sem :D ok? :D